在McKay的家庭中，我是官方的“将灯光放在圣诞树的人身上”。自凯特和我结婚以来，我每年都做这项工作。每年，我最终都会在呼吸下喃喃自语，而纳特·金·科尔（Nat King Cole）在背景中对甲板上的Tannenbaum的欢乐感到沮丧。
我一直遇到一系列多年生问题，使树上的灯光成为令人厌烦的任务。但是随着时间的流逝，我逐渐为每种工作变得更加轻松且效率越来越大。
第一个问题是，我戴上灯后将无法使用。将所有的灯光放在树上的所有灯都发现它们已经停止，这是一种可怕的感觉，因为一个灯泡被烧毁了。因此，我现在精心测试每条线在树上。
不断弹出的另一个问题是，当我将灯光从树顶绑到底部时，当我到达底部时，灯光看起来太稀疏了。Since the bottom is wider, it takes more lights to fill it out, and I’d end up having to add some strands, but in a more haphazard way, since they weren’t part of the around-the-whole-tree flow. So now I begin to string the lights from the bottom, which allows me to plug them in before I start, and ensures that I can see how they look as I go and affirm that I have enough lights at the base before moving on up.
最后一个重复出现的问题是，灯光看起来没有足够的深度。In years past, I’d just sort of hang the lights on the ends of the branches, resulting in a tree that didn’t have a look and brightness that was sufficiently three-dimensional, and again forcing me to add in more lights after I thought I was done. To solve the problem, I’ve learned to alternate stringing the lights in towards the trunk and out towards the tips of the branches as I work my way up the tree.
通过实施这些技术，我的年度照明工作现在变得更加顺畅。希望他们也会为您工作，因此您可以在修理炉子时节省咒骂。
